The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-24
Pith and Point.

ish an erring friend to " do write."-Duluh
| Pdrdgrdpher.
A JERSEY CRY butcher took his bed into
an ice-house, the other night, and two days
later was dead.
WHEN sheep scatter about field on
warm day look out for thunder-shower.--
| Farm and Fdctorv.
THERE are forty jew millionaires in New
York. The richest is Max We'll, who is
rated at SS,000,0O0.
WHAT book has helped you most in life?"
| was asked OF prosperous man the other
day "My pocket-book," he replied.-E1.
A DAKOTA man, while on his way to Dor
row neighbors paper, was struck by light
ming and killed. Comment is unnecessary.
MAST, the distinguished caricaturist, no
longer appears in HdrperS, but whether ill
! health or disagreement be the cause is not
| known.
DANIEL, what does G. A. II. signify?"
| " ] don't know your excellency, but per-
haps it means Go Ask Rebels "-Phdd-
deiphid Press.
ANY enterprising hen that can lay an egg
presenting the portrait of the next president
| will save us a good deal of trouble and
anxiety. -Sprinafeld Union.
THE man who sits down and waits to be
appreciated will find himself among I'M
called-for baggage after the limited express
train has gone by whitehall Times.
ISN'T it a legal fiction when an attorney
closes petition with the formula, "And
your petitioner will ever pray?" Some pc
titioners don't appear to be that sort of folks.
A PENNSYLVANIA Judge has decided that
fruit hanging over fence belongs to the
man over whose ground it is suspended, and
that he can cut off the limbs of the tree if he
chooses.
In chroncing the death of a prominent
citizen New Mexico paper says: His
tired spirit was released from the pain
racked body and scared aloft at half-past
four, Denver time"
a COLLECTOR of butterflies who has spent
forty years in gathering specimens, has on
private exhibition in Philadelphia over
10000 butterflies, whose rarity cannot be
surpassed by any collection.
a RAGGED and dirty tramp has been per
colating through New York state, begging
cakes of soap at various stores. He was
rarely refused, but instead of using the soap
sold it at auction every night.
) a YOUNG shark has been on exhibition in
the front window of restaurant in this city
for several days. 1t came from an eastern
+ seaport, but its countenance has the ex-
preston of dealer in Kansas City real
estate-Chicdgo Tribune.
OMAHA dame: your baby seems very
, bright of his age" Kansas mother: SO,
t he's just as smart as they make them"
Can he say papa and mamma yet?'' " No,
he amt learned that, but you ought to hear
| him lisp veal estate "-Omdhd World.
4 THE son of Joshua r. Giddings, the old
: Ohio abolitionist lives at jefferson, the
= county seat of Ashtabula county. He prac-
' tees law and runs a farm, but he takes very
little interest in politics. The son of Ben.
Wade lives in the same town. He gives
himself up to horses and lets politics alone
A WISCONSIN man, who is at present doing
i the eastern cities, has discovered that this
: summer the price of throwing a pumpkin
1 pie at the head of a Philadelphia hotel
h waiter is S52, of which $40 is fine and $40
: costs. The waiter was not greatly hurt, but
e it is understood that the pie received fatal
$ injuries.
: A CHILD was recently watching young
$ lady in Holiston busily talking into tele-
e phone transmitter. Suddenly the child said,
" Who are you talking to?" The lady
" answered, I'm talking to a man" The
: child replied, Well, he must be an awful
= little man to live in such small house as
Il that. "-Boston Globe
II OMAHA medium: THE spirit who is now
here tells me you are not an American by
;, birth" Omaha man: He vas right" " He
. says you We're born in another country"
}, " Dot is drue." He says the name of that
e country is Germany" Dot vas so; it vas
!. Shermany." 81 am tired now Two dol
> > lars. "-Omdha World.
i, DELVERANCE from the perils of the NOR
o phine habit is promised in the new narcotic,
i called antipyrine, recently discovered in
r Paris 1t is injected hypodermically, like
q morphine, but does not produce an I'M
n healthy somnoence nor dangerous eXal-
IS tation of the nervous system, and it is
$ curative as well as sedative.
"a THE editor of IVebSter's a. c. Weeklu
7. thus apologies for the appearance of so
1t much original matter in a recent issue of his
s paper; " Our shears are sadly in need of
e sharpening The rivet is loose and when
e we try to clip an article they wobble through
n the paper like "A turkey-gobbler with sun
st stroke and CRATE with an unearthly sound.
IS The process of cutting has become so dis
Y, agreeable that we have been forced 20 put
y in more original matter oflate."
/; THE length to which blind credulity will
II 90 has lust been illustrated in the case of a
., man in Frankfort, Ky. He had been suf-
z; ferer from asthma for years, and on being
IL told recently by friend that if he would
e swallow few bird-Shot every day for a
Sc few weeks he would be cured he promptly
Is began to do so. After he had swallowed
= about four pounds violent symptoms of
~ lead poisoning were developed and the man
u was obliged to go to a physician. His life
III was saved but he still has the asthma as bad
p as ever.
Us THE Cincinnati Commercial Gazette has
been trying to terrfy its readers with a story
from China relative to the dangers of nat
ural gas. According to this authority there
was gas craze in China two hundred years
, ago, when wells were sunk in great haste,
until great section of country was perfo-
W rated. Then a large well drew the fire back
u u into a smaller one, causing an explosion
IL which overturned vast tract of territory,
u. killed 100000 Cinnamon and left only a
1T great lake to mark the spot and preserve
- the memory of the catastrophe.
nt NOT one man in fifty knows how to eat
" corn in the ear as to get at the good of it
. In the first place | admit that no man or
. woman looks very pretty with ear of
III corn in his or her mouth. The fact is there
y, is no artistic way to eat it, Take your ear
81 of corn and lay it across your plate or
III leave it in the side-dish. Hold it with your
q fork in your left hand. Take the knife and
III run it over the row of kernels, cutting them
" or lancing them Take the next row, and
X so on until you cut all the rows. Put on
W your salt and pepper and butter and then
~ eat. My word for it, if the corn is not toe
Is old you will relish the corn as you never
did before. The husks remain ON the cob
and you can then what sort of indiges-
Is. tible stuff has escaped your stomach
h Chicago Mail.
NO AN old man was riding on an ass along a
VI country road, while his little son trudged or
81 foot by his side They met man who said
o vi "What shame that you should ride while
Nv your little son is compelled to walk" The
NC man dismounted and gave his seat upon
d the beast to the child Soon however, they
= met another man, who said, "Out upon
10 thee, TO let the poor old father walk willis
no thou, who art Young and vigorous ridel'